December 12, 2025 • 18 mins
Today on the show Loren gave her low ridas the latest on University of Michigan head football coach Sherrone Moore who was fired after a school investigation revealed an “inappropriate relationship.” Loren also, discusses the movie "Waiting to Exhale" cast reuniting with a interview with Gayle King, check it out.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody. You know, if you don't lie about that?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Right la.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
O, Hey, y'all, what's up. It's Laura l. Rosa and
this is the latest with Lauren Rosa. This is your
Deli Dig on all things pop culture, entertainment, news, and
all of the conversations that shake the room. Baby checking
in behind the scenes of the Grind my low Riders.
For everybody that has been here, you guys know, when
we check in behind the scenes of the Grind, it's
(00:31):
just a check in. How are you, what's going on,
what you got, what's the vibe? How you feeling? I
will tell you guys. I was supposed to head to
Candy's opening night of her play She is back on
Broadway in the play Anduliette, but I did not make it.
(00:51):
After recording the podcast and doing the show and a
ton of things, I was just like, I'm exhausted, and
tomorrow's Friday. I when to finish a week strong at
the Breakfast Club. So I decided not to go. But
I will reschedule. I've already talked to the powers that be.
I will reschedule to head to the play because I
want to bring you guys a review of the play.
I know I've been seeing people, you know, talking about
(01:14):
some of the videos she's posted, and some excitement, not
so much excitement, people in the middle all of the things.
I think it's dope what she's doing with Broadway, whether
she's on the stage or behind the curtain, behind the camera,
I support it. So I want to pull up, and
when I do, I'm taking y'all with me. Now, let's
get on into the latest. So top of news this
(01:36):
morning University of Michigan former football coach Sharon Moore. So, okay,
just a little rewind because we haven't talked about this
here on the podcast yet. So Sharon Moore was the
you know, one of the big the big dog coaches
over at the University of Michigan, and he was randomly,
like all of a sudden, just fired a few days ago.
(01:57):
And when he was fired, there was a statement that
was released by the university that said that they fired
him because they had credible evidence that he was having
an inappropriate relationship with the staffer, which violated his contract
and university policy. Right. So, after this happens, he is
then arrested and being investigated at that point for an
alleged assault. There were not much details at the time
(02:18):
besides the arrest, and then there were some more details
that came. TMZ got a nine one one audio call.
Let's take a listen to that non on one audio
call that explains a bit more about the arrest.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Three for domestic projective caller for it is in the
altiplication and how it's attack here sixpense stocking here for
months for the patilion's domestic they call that one's wife
(02:51):
and niverse saying that these effectives shout sight.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Of perfect I think it's job today through Phottle you
want that with certain knife and just defin why there's
a UM detective that's going to be making a location
as well.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Now in that audio call, you were hearing the dispatch
talk about the fact that there is a woman in
her home who has called nine one one that is
alleging that a coach showed up in her home is
assaulting her and it's threatening to take his life, like
he may be suicidal because he lost a job and
she's trying to get help to just you know, be okay.
(03:30):
At the time, based on you know, how this call
is set up. Until this point that the No One
Want audio was released, there had not been any comment
from Sharanmor's team whatsoever. There have begun to be unverified
reports that were not fully unverified, some of them unverified,
and I'll explain why I'm saying that. So, at the
(03:51):
time that the No Want audio released and there was
a bit more details about his arrest or what led
up to the arrest and the allegations that led up
to the arrest, reports have began circulating again at the
time unverified that this relationship with the staffer involved the
person that who's home he had went to, right, but
(04:12):
again this was not verified. Today, as I'm speaking to
you guys, he has been in police custody for two days.
As I'm speaking to you guys, he has been in
police custody because I don't have any updates that he's
actually posted the bond that he was given. He's been
in police custody for three days. So he was arrested
Wednesday after police allege or prosecutors alleged he went to
(04:33):
this woman's home. Thursday, he was still in police custody.
He hadn't seen the judge. There have been no charges
really anything solid release from the police or anybody saying
what happened. All that was being released to media was
that they were investigating an assault. Now you get to
day three and he finally sees a judge, and from there,
(04:56):
what the government is alleging is that he's he's now
facing three criminal charges. They're alleging home invasion at a
third degree fellony level, stalking in a domestic relationship, and
breaking and entering, which are misdemeanor charges. His bond is
set at twenty five thousand dollars, and prosecutors then gave
a rundown of what the actions that they alleged happened
(05:19):
based on what the woman in the home, and pay
attention to the fact that they said that this was
a domestic situation. So what we know is that there
is a stafford that he had an inappropriate relationship with
because the university said that is what they found in
their investigation, which calls for him to be fired. He's
out twelve point three million dollars. By the way, he
(05:40):
will not get the remainder of his twelve point three
million dollars that he would have gotten from this contract
because he was fired for violating the contract and violating
university policy. But we also know that he has a
wife and three kids that he shares with his wife.
But all you know is domestic. We don't know the
identity of the woman at this point. Well, now in
(06:00):
the arrangment, more details are coming out. So prosecutor said
in the arrayment today that Shara Moore, they alleged he
forced his way into the staff member's apartment. So there's
the staff member coming back into play again in a
domestic situation and said allegedly, I'm going to kill myself.
I'm going to make you watch. My blood is on
your hand. You ruined my life. Now, what they alleged
(06:22):
happened is that they led Sharam Moore and this staffer
had a relationship for some years, and that the staffer
broke up with Sharon. They're allegend this happened top of
the week, so all of this is within the matter
of days. And what they allege is that after the
(06:42):
stafford broke up with Sharon, the staff are alleged she
begins to receive a ton of phone calls and text
messages that basically got her and she says that she
alleged she wasn't responding, but these text messages and phone
calls she's alleging got her to the point where she
were she was uncomfortable. She was uncomfortable enough that she
(07:03):
went to university officials. Prosecutors alleged when she went to
university officials, she provided them with phone calls, texts, a
timeline of a relationship, you know, all the things. And
she had to basically come clean about everything, and then
they move forward with firing Charon. Now, I don't have
any answer, but y'all know it is on my list
(07:25):
to ask. I don't have an answer to whether or
not like what has happened with the female staffer yet
we don't have that yet. But in continuing and you
know what they are alleging. The prosecutors, uh, they called
Sharon's alleged actions a series of very very threatening and
intimidating and terrifying statements and behaviors. They also say that,
(07:48):
you know, if he when he is released on his bond,
there are some conditions because of you know, the because
of what the allegations and the charges are, so he
will be tethered to a GPS mind of course, no
contact with the victim and he's going to be ordered
so no contact with the victim, he can't go to
the victim's residents, and there'll be a probable cause conference
(08:10):
that will happen on January second. Now, a probable cause
conference is just a meeting between the prosecutors and the
defense attorneys and where they basically say like, Okay, here's
everything we have, we lay it all out. You kind
of see this if y'all watch Power, you kind of
see them have this meeting all the time where they
(08:31):
get together and they talk and they're like, here's what
I got, Here's what my plan is, Here's how I'm
going to approach it at court. And then the defense
is able to be like, well, no, I don't think
that you should be able to use this, and if
you use this, we're going to do that. And then
they talk about plea deals and they talk about, you know,
just how they plan to move forward, discussing evidence and
you know, all the things, because if they get solved
at that point, they solve it at that point. Now,
(08:53):
the only update that I am seeing per ESPN so far,
and again, all of this is changing by the moment,
literally been on like pens and needles kind of waiting
to get more information, because again, all of this happens
so randomly, like it was just announced that he was fired,
and then all of this like down spiral just happened.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Like.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
But so far, there is a statement from his attorney,
and I said this morning on the Breakfast Club when
we talked about this, that at this point, once the
arraignment happened, you would be able to pinpoint who his
attorney or spokesperson was, So we should be able to
get more of his side of things if they plan
to present it. So far, all his attorney has said
(09:34):
is that he underwent a mental health evaluation and it
was turned back over to law enforcement. And they're not
giving details on like where he plans to go upon
his release, like you know, what the situation is with
his actual real family, like anything. So there's a lot
more to come here, so I will keep you guys
updated with the latest. I have questions, as you guys
(09:55):
naturally have. I'm sure tweet meet your questions getting the
streets and into tweet at Laura Lao's everywhere, comment your
questions below. Let's talk about it, I mean, next steps,
what happens here? What are their lessons learned here, not
learned here? Just anything sound off about it. I want
to hear from you guys. Now switching gears to some positivity.
(10:20):
See what kind of dealing with relationships? Waiting to exhale?
They are celebrating the icons, the legends, the lovely pillars
of black television and entertainment, some of them Miss Lee
lover Sean, Angela Bassett, and Loretta Devine all miss I'm
(10:43):
putting the miss in front of all their names. Okay,
I would never not are celebrating thirty years of the
Waiting to ex Hell movie this month that movie premiered
in theaters, and the soundtrack and just all of the
all of the things. So they said down with Gael
King on CBS Mornings and just took a look back
(11:05):
at how impactful bringing black women together who were literally
just waiting to breathe in, breathe out, Let it all
go together, right, navigating life, relationships, all of these things,
but doing it together and showing out on screen just
the ceilings that they broke. Let's stick a listen.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
I just feel when you were making the movie that
we're doing something very special that hasn't been done before.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Did you know while you're in it, that this is something.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Being knew it was special because it was our faces,
a brown, beautiful, brilliant faces on the screen together. It
broke through, It burst through because there were so many
times we'd go into a room and you would hear
that stories or stories about black people didn't travel. You know,
didn't you know that they didn't translate, or they wouldn't
(11:55):
travel to a year, it would only there was only
a ceiling, very low ceil. It we burst through that.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
I know it was special just because it was so unique,
and I knew how excited everybody was about it, and
I knew how how lucky we were, and how special
everything that Whitney had done up to that point, like
she couldn't make a flop. So it was special in
so many different ways.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Every time I think about career, I think about impact
like that is like probably like one of the things
I think about the most is like how what I'm
doing right now be able to help people after I'm
not doing it anymore, or I've moved on to do
it in a different level, different phase. You know, all
of all of those things run through my mind. I
look at these women. I remember I met Miss Lee
(12:46):
Levershan on a set of BT Talks, which was a
show shout out to BT and a whole team over there,
which was a show that Tamisa shout out to. Tamisa, girl,
you know who you are. She like, oh my god.
They gave me so much opportunity in Free Range with
the interviews I was doing for them. But I met
miss Lee Livershan and I cried. I remember telling people
I cried and they were like, why did you cry?
(13:08):
And for me, it was just like, okay, Number one
waiting to excel is just you. Just even as I'm
talking to you guys about it and saying the name
of the movie, I hear shoot, Shoot, Shoot, and I
see that, you know, the scene in the car, and
like all of the symbolism in that movie for me,
and just seeing those women on camera and live live
(13:30):
their lives and be doing it to it just felt
like it felt so familiar and what that did for
me just as a person wanted to be on television,
be in the media space, act direct right all of
these things. I'm looking at this and I'm like this
is amazing, Like this is when and I think my
(13:51):
first time I felt like I was probably like maybe
twelve thirteen years old the first time I saw Waiting six,
So of course I didn't understand it for real. But
now let me tell y'all something. Now, Okay, me and
my friends did a ski trip like last year around
this time, I want to say, and cause you know,
(14:12):
you get busy. You have things going on in life.
Everybody's in like relationships, and people have kids and it's
just a lot going on. But I don't think people
understand how much getting back together with your good group
of friends, especially you're good good girlfriends. Okay, I'm talking
about the ones where you put a picture in the
chat and they naming they naming people by their jeans
(14:33):
that they were not big jeans, okay, not goal chains, okay,
Like the ones that you really can key key with
that really know you, understand you, or even if they
don't understand you, are willing to take a moment to
try and understand you, or just be there to be
silent to hear you. Getting together with that group of
friends you're good, good, good good girl, You're good, good,
(14:56):
good good girlfriends. It's a different level of like healing. Wow,
I'm gonna text my friends after this and be like, y'all,
we need to do that again, and it needs to
be like an annual thing. But I remember when we
did the trip, when we left, I put that because
you know that there's that mean that always circulates with
the waiting to excel cast. And they're sitting on the
(15:17):
floor and I think they might even be passing, like
they might be smoking somewat or something. I think they are,
And the caption of the meme says, I in my
adult life, I understand this so much more now when
I tell y'all, I put that in the chat, and
we really felt that because it's like, man, you really
do like you the things that this movie does for
(15:41):
the group chat and for the girlfriends. All right. But
one of the other special moments that it was very
emotional to watch them share was when Gail King asked them,
what would Whitney Houston be thinking in this moment looking
back on thirty years? Let's take a listen. What do
you think Whitney would think?
Speaker 4 (15:59):
God, it's hard to say, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Oh? Man, I think she would be proud.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
I think it would have been one of the seminal experiences.
You said, you think she would think It's a seminal moment. Angela,
you know, she's so used to being solo there in
the in the spotlight, in the hot glare, and to
be able to share this moment with your girls, you know.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Yeah, she loved doing it. She had so much fun
and we had fun.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
She was just so warm and loving. And I remember
certain press people wanted just Angela and Whitney, and Whitney said, no,
we go as a group, or we don't go at all.
And that was powerful to me that she stood up
for us.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
And for the listeners who can't see that clip, Angela
Bassett is like emotional, like she's like wiping you know,
tears in the beginning of them, you know, before their
access question there looking at the shoot video in Whitney Houston,
and she's emotional. Shout out to wait in text hel
in thirty years, shout out to you know babyface who
(17:09):
you know the soundtrack that we got from that I
know shoot went on to when Emmys and I mean
Emmy's shoot went on to win Grammys and yeah, I
just men, black women are like huh us period. And
for anybody that didn't understand a little sentence that I
just said, you're not gang but if you got it,
(17:30):
you got it. The girls that no no like black women.
Yeah we that period, guys. That is it for this episode. Wow.
Now I want to go watch Way in Texel and
I gotta text my friends because we got to do
their that trip again. If anybody is inspired to go
out and do your own waiting to excel trip, men
can do it too. It's just I think once men
(17:53):
do it, it's like hangover, it's not waiting to excel.
But y'all can do it too. But if y'all are
inspired to go out and do that, do it post
it tag me let me know my Low Writers is
out here having a waiting to expel parties, because that's
the real thing. Y'all. Thank you guys for tuning in
for this episode. I tell you every single episode, my
Low Writers, y'all could be anywhere anybody, but y'all choose
(18:15):
to be right here with me talking about all the things.
And I appreciate you guys so much for it. I
will see you in my next episode.
I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody. You know, if you don't lie about that?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Right la.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
O, Hey, y'all, what's up. It's Laura l. Rosa and
this is the latest with Lauren Rosa. This is your
Deli Dig on all things pop culture, entertainment, news, and
all of the conversations that shake the room. Baby checking
in behind the scenes of the Grind my low Riders.
For everybody that has been here, you guys know, when
we check in behind the scenes of the Grind, it's
(00:31):
just a check in. How are you, what's going on,
what you got, what's the vibe? How you feeling? I
will tell you guys. I was supposed to head to
Candy's opening night of her play She is back on
Broadway in the play Anduliette, but I did not make it.
(00:51):
After recording the podcast and doing the show and a
ton of things, I was just like, I'm exhausted, and
tomorrow's Friday. I when to finish a week strong at
the Breakfast Club. So I decided not to go. But
I will reschedule. I've already talked to the powers that be.
I will reschedule to head to the play because I
want to bring you guys a review of the play.
I know I've been seeing people, you know, talking about
(01:14):
some of the videos she's posted, and some excitement, not
so much excitement, people in the middle all of the things.
I think it's dope what she's doing with Broadway, whether
she's on the stage or behind the curtain, behind the camera,
I support it. So I want to pull up, and
when I do, I'm taking y'all with me. Now, let's
get on into the latest. So top of news this
(01:36):
morning University of Michigan former football coach Sharon Moore. So, okay,
just a little rewind because we haven't talked about this
here on the podcast yet. So Sharon Moore was the
you know, one of the big the big dog coaches
over at the University of Michigan, and he was randomly,
like all of a sudden, just fired a few days ago.
(01:57):
And when he was fired, there was a statement that
was released by the university that said that they fired
him because they had credible evidence that he was having
an inappropriate relationship with the staffer, which violated his contract
and university policy. Right. So, after this happens, he is
then arrested and being investigated at that point for an
alleged assault. There were not much details at the time
(02:18):
besides the arrest, and then there were some more details
that came. TMZ got a nine one one audio call.
Let's take a listen to that non on one audio
call that explains a bit more about the arrest.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Three for domestic projective caller for it is in the
altiplication and how it's attack here sixpense stocking here for
months for the patilion's domestic they call that one's wife
(02:51):
and niverse saying that these effectives shout sight.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Of perfect I think it's job today through Phottle you
want that with certain knife and just defin why there's
a UM detective that's going to be making a location
as well.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Now in that audio call, you were hearing the dispatch
talk about the fact that there is a woman in
her home who has called nine one one that is
alleging that a coach showed up in her home is
assaulting her and it's threatening to take his life, like
he may be suicidal because he lost a job and
she's trying to get help to just you know, be okay.
(03:30):
At the time, based on you know, how this call
is set up. Until this point that the No One
Want audio was released, there had not been any comment
from Sharanmor's team whatsoever. There have begun to be unverified
reports that were not fully unverified, some of them unverified,
and I'll explain why I'm saying that. So, at the
(03:51):
time that the No Want audio released and there was
a bit more details about his arrest or what led
up to the arrest and the allegations that led up
to the arrest, reports have began circulating again at the
time unverified that this relationship with the staffer involved the
person that who's home he had went to, right, but
(04:12):
again this was not verified. Today, as I'm speaking to
you guys, he has been in police custody for two days.
As I'm speaking to you guys, he has been in
police custody because I don't have any updates that he's
actually posted the bond that he was given. He's been
in police custody for three days. So he was arrested
Wednesday after police allege or prosecutors alleged he went to
(04:33):
this woman's home. Thursday, he was still in police custody.
He hadn't seen the judge. There have been no charges
really anything solid release from the police or anybody saying
what happened. All that was being released to media was
that they were investigating an assault. Now you get to
day three and he finally sees a judge, and from there,
(04:56):
what the government is alleging is that he's he's now
facing three criminal charges. They're alleging home invasion at a
third degree fellony level, stalking in a domestic relationship, and
breaking and entering, which are misdemeanor charges. His bond is
set at twenty five thousand dollars, and prosecutors then gave
a rundown of what the actions that they alleged happened
(05:19):
based on what the woman in the home, and pay
attention to the fact that they said that this was
a domestic situation. So what we know is that there
is a stafford that he had an inappropriate relationship with
because the university said that is what they found in
their investigation, which calls for him to be fired. He's
out twelve point three million dollars. By the way, he
(05:40):
will not get the remainder of his twelve point three
million dollars that he would have gotten from this contract
because he was fired for violating the contract and violating
university policy. But we also know that he has a
wife and three kids that he shares with his wife.
But all you know is domestic. We don't know the
identity of the woman at this point. Well, now in
(06:00):
the arrangment, more details are coming out. So prosecutor said
in the arrayment today that Shara Moore, they alleged he
forced his way into the staff member's apartment. So there's
the staff member coming back into play again in a
domestic situation and said allegedly, I'm going to kill myself.
I'm going to make you watch. My blood is on
your hand. You ruined my life. Now, what they alleged
(06:22):
happened is that they led Sharam Moore and this staffer
had a relationship for some years, and that the staffer
broke up with Sharon. They're allegend this happened top of
the week, so all of this is within the matter
of days. And what they allege is that after the
(06:42):
stafford broke up with Sharon, the staff are alleged she
begins to receive a ton of phone calls and text
messages that basically got her and she says that she
alleged she wasn't responding, but these text messages and phone
calls she's alleging got her to the point where she
were she was uncomfortable. She was uncomfortable enough that she
(07:03):
went to university officials. Prosecutors alleged when she went to
university officials, she provided them with phone calls, texts, a
timeline of a relationship, you know, all the things. And
she had to basically come clean about everything, and then
they move forward with firing Charon. Now, I don't have
any answer, but y'all know it is on my list
(07:25):
to ask. I don't have an answer to whether or
not like what has happened with the female staffer yet
we don't have that yet. But in continuing and you
know what they are alleging. The prosecutors, uh, they called
Sharon's alleged actions a series of very very threatening and
intimidating and terrifying statements and behaviors. They also say that,
(07:48):
you know, if he when he is released on his bond,
there are some conditions because of you know, the because
of what the allegations and the charges are, so he
will be tethered to a GPS mind of course, no
contact with the victim and he's going to be ordered
so no contact with the victim, he can't go to
the victim's residents, and there'll be a probable cause conference
(08:10):
that will happen on January second. Now, a probable cause
conference is just a meeting between the prosecutors and the
defense attorneys and where they basically say like, Okay, here's
everything we have, we lay it all out. You kind
of see this if y'all watch Power, you kind of
see them have this meeting all the time where they
(08:31):
get together and they talk and they're like, here's what
I got, Here's what my plan is, Here's how I'm
going to approach it at court. And then the defense
is able to be like, well, no, I don't think
that you should be able to use this, and if
you use this, we're going to do that. And then
they talk about plea deals and they talk about, you know,
just how they plan to move forward, discussing evidence and
you know, all the things, because if they get solved
at that point, they solve it at that point. Now,
(08:53):
the only update that I am seeing per ESPN so far,
and again, all of this is changing by the moment,
literally been on like pens and needles kind of waiting
to get more information, because again, all of this happens
so randomly, like it was just announced that he was fired,
and then all of this like down spiral just happened.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Like.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
But so far, there is a statement from his attorney,
and I said this morning on the Breakfast Club when
we talked about this, that at this point, once the
arraignment happened, you would be able to pinpoint who his
attorney or spokesperson was, So we should be able to
get more of his side of things if they plan
to present it. So far, all his attorney has said
(09:34):
is that he underwent a mental health evaluation and it
was turned back over to law enforcement. And they're not
giving details on like where he plans to go upon
his release, like you know, what the situation is with
his actual real family, like anything. So there's a lot
more to come here, so I will keep you guys
updated with the latest. I have questions, as you guys
(09:55):
naturally have. I'm sure tweet meet your questions getting the
streets and into tweet at Laura Lao's everywhere, comment your
questions below. Let's talk about it, I mean, next steps,
what happens here? What are their lessons learned here, not
learned here? Just anything sound off about it. I want
to hear from you guys. Now switching gears to some positivity.
(10:20):
See what kind of dealing with relationships? Waiting to exhale?
They are celebrating the icons, the legends, the lovely pillars
of black television and entertainment, some of them Miss Lee
lover Sean, Angela Bassett, and Loretta Devine all miss I'm
(10:43):
putting the miss in front of all their names. Okay,
I would never not are celebrating thirty years of the
Waiting to ex Hell movie this month that movie premiered
in theaters, and the soundtrack and just all of the
all of the things. So they said down with Gael
King on CBS Mornings and just took a look back
(11:05):
at how impactful bringing black women together who were literally
just waiting to breathe in, breathe out, Let it all
go together, right, navigating life, relationships, all of these things,
but doing it together and showing out on screen just
the ceilings that they broke. Let's stick a listen.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
I just feel when you were making the movie that
we're doing something very special that hasn't been done before.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Did you know while you're in it, that this is something.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Being knew it was special because it was our faces,
a brown, beautiful, brilliant faces on the screen together. It
broke through, It burst through because there were so many
times we'd go into a room and you would hear
that stories or stories about black people didn't travel. You know,
didn't you know that they didn't translate, or they wouldn't
(11:55):
travel to a year, it would only there was only
a ceiling, very low ceil. It we burst through that.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
I know it was special just because it was so unique,
and I knew how excited everybody was about it, and
I knew how how lucky we were, and how special
everything that Whitney had done up to that point, like
she couldn't make a flop. So it was special in
so many different ways.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Every time I think about career, I think about impact
like that is like probably like one of the things
I think about the most is like how what I'm
doing right now be able to help people after I'm
not doing it anymore, or I've moved on to do
it in a different level, different phase. You know, all
of all of those things run through my mind. I
look at these women. I remember I met Miss Lee
(12:46):
Levershan on a set of BT Talks, which was a
show shout out to BT and a whole team over there,
which was a show that Tamisa shout out to. Tamisa, girl,
you know who you are. She like, oh my god.
They gave me so much opportunity in Free Range with
the interviews I was doing for them. But I met
miss Lee Livershan and I cried. I remember telling people
I cried and they were like, why did you cry?
(13:08):
And for me, it was just like, okay, Number one
waiting to excel is just you. Just even as I'm
talking to you guys about it and saying the name
of the movie, I hear shoot, Shoot, Shoot, and I
see that, you know, the scene in the car, and
like all of the symbolism in that movie for me,
and just seeing those women on camera and live live
(13:30):
their lives and be doing it to it just felt
like it felt so familiar and what that did for
me just as a person wanted to be on television,
be in the media space, act direct right all of
these things. I'm looking at this and I'm like this
is amazing, Like this is when and I think my
(13:51):
first time I felt like I was probably like maybe
twelve thirteen years old the first time I saw Waiting six,
So of course I didn't understand it for real. But
now let me tell y'all something. Now, Okay, me and
my friends did a ski trip like last year around
this time, I want to say, and cause you know,
(14:12):
you get busy. You have things going on in life.
Everybody's in like relationships, and people have kids and it's
just a lot going on. But I don't think people
understand how much getting back together with your good group
of friends, especially you're good good girlfriends. Okay, I'm talking
about the ones where you put a picture in the
chat and they naming they naming people by their jeans
(14:33):
that they were not big jeans, okay, not goal chains, okay,
Like the ones that you really can key key with
that really know you, understand you, or even if they
don't understand you, are willing to take a moment to
try and understand you, or just be there to be
silent to hear you. Getting together with that group of
friends you're good, good, good good girl, You're good, good,
(14:56):
good good girlfriends. It's a different level of like healing. Wow,
I'm gonna text my friends after this and be like, y'all,
we need to do that again, and it needs to
be like an annual thing. But I remember when we
did the trip, when we left, I put that because
you know that there's that mean that always circulates with
the waiting to excel cast. And they're sitting on the
(15:17):
floor and I think they might even be passing, like
they might be smoking somewat or something. I think they are,
And the caption of the meme says, I in my
adult life, I understand this so much more now when
I tell y'all, I put that in the chat, and
we really felt that because it's like, man, you really
do like you the things that this movie does for
(15:41):
the group chat and for the girlfriends. All right. But
one of the other special moments that it was very
emotional to watch them share was when Gail King asked them,
what would Whitney Houston be thinking in this moment looking
back on thirty years? Let's take a listen. What do
you think Whitney would think?
Speaker 4 (15:59):
God, it's hard to say, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Oh? Man, I think she would be proud.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
I think it would have been one of the seminal experiences.
You said, you think she would think It's a seminal moment. Angela,
you know, she's so used to being solo there in
the in the spotlight, in the hot glare, and to
be able to share this moment with your girls, you know.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Yeah, she loved doing it. She had so much fun
and we had fun.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
She was just so warm and loving. And I remember
certain press people wanted just Angela and Whitney, and Whitney said, no,
we go as a group, or we don't go at all.
And that was powerful to me that she stood up
for us.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
And for the listeners who can't see that clip, Angela
Bassett is like emotional, like she's like wiping you know,
tears in the beginning of them, you know, before their
access question there looking at the shoot video in Whitney Houston,
and she's emotional. Shout out to wait in text hel
in thirty years, shout out to you know babyface who
(17:09):
you know the soundtrack that we got from that I
know shoot went on to when Emmys and I mean
Emmy's shoot went on to win Grammys and yeah, I
just men, black women are like huh us period. And
for anybody that didn't understand a little sentence that I
just said, you're not gang but if you got it,
(17:30):
you got it. The girls that no no like black women.
Yeah we that period, guys. That is it for this episode. Wow.
Now I want to go watch Way in Texel and
I gotta text my friends because we got to do
their that trip again. If anybody is inspired to go
out and do your own waiting to excel trip, men
can do it too. It's just I think once men
(17:53):
do it, it's like hangover, it's not waiting to excel.
But y'all can do it too. But if y'all are
inspired to go out and do that, do it post
it tag me let me know my Low Writers is
out here having a waiting to expel parties, because that's
the real thing. Y'all. Thank you guys for tuning in
for this episode. I tell you every single episode, my
Low Writers, y'all could be anywhere anybody, but y'all choose
(18:15):
to be right here with me talking about all the things.
And I appreciate you guys so much for it. I
will see you in my next episode.
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